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I had a refugium with a Kessil H380 and was throwing away about a gallon of chaeto overgrowth every month. It was a set it and forget it setup and I looked to switch because I liked the idea of a contained macroalgae growth system.
The Bellum seems to be great at turning chaeto into mushy slime and fouling up my tank. I'm told that I need to jump through hoops for success with this (ex: maintain a 1/100 ppm Nitrate: Phosphate ratio, dose iron, dose iodine, and even dose nitrate). I think I could grow chaeto in my tennis shoe if it was filled it with water containing those parameters.
The searches on this forum yield results with people selling used ones, which is not a good sign. There are most other posts of people trying to understand why they can't get this thing to work.
So what's the real deal? Is it that the light quality sucks? The limited flow/exposure to nutrients? The inside out lighting design? Combo of all?
I can't even get this thing to become make-shift gh algae scrubber...and (like most reefers) I'm great at growing gha.
The Bellum seems to be great at turning chaeto into mushy slime and fouling up my tank. I'm told that I need to jump through hoops for success with this (ex: maintain a 1/100 ppm Nitrate: Phosphate ratio, dose iron, dose iodine, and even dose nitrate). I think I could grow chaeto in my tennis shoe if it was filled it with water containing those parameters.
The searches on this forum yield results with people selling used ones, which is not a good sign. There are most other posts of people trying to understand why they can't get this thing to work.
So what's the real deal? Is it that the light quality sucks? The limited flow/exposure to nutrients? The inside out lighting design? Combo of all?
I can't even get this thing to become make-shift gh algae scrubber...and (like most reefers) I'm great at growing gha.